St. Petersburg, Fla.-based All Children's Hospital and its nine outpatient centers are taking the final step in a five-year process to becoming a fully integrated hospital of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospitals and Health Systems, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
On April 5, the hospital's 90th anniversary, All Children's Hospital will be renamed the Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, according to the report. This name change signals the hospital's full transition to Johns Hopkins quality and standards of care and an added emphasis on clinical research, according to the report. It encompasses the hospital's outpatient clinics as well. The integration will bring the latest treatments to these clinics with the aim of keeping kids out of inpatient care if possible, according to the report.
The move also makes the All Children's physicians who work at Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital and seven other Florida hospitals part of Johns Hopkins' network, according to the report.
All Children's Hospital will maintain its own budget and all donations made to the hospital will stay in the St. Petersburg area, according to the report.
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